And the World Health Organization added, in a tweet on its Twitter account, yesterday, Monday, that a genetic test showed that the infection, which was confirmed last week, was a “case of transmission”, which is the transmission of the disease from an infected animal and has no connection with the previous outbreak that was announced in October. .
A spokesman for the World Health Organization told Reuters that the second victim of the Ebola virus was a woman related to the first case.
Symptoms began on the first patient on the fifth of April, but he did not seek treatment for more than a week.
The patient entered an Ebola treatment center in Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur (the Equatorial Region), on April 23 and died later that day.
Congo previously witnessed 13 Ebola outbreaks, one of them from 2018 to 2020, in the east of the country, killing nearly 2,300 people, the second highest number of victims in the history of the disease.
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